After a fair bit of work, I’ve migrated off of my older, lesser email provider over to Sendgrid. You shouldn’t notice a difference, but if this found its way into your spam folder, could you please do me a favor and mark it as not spam? Google and Office365 still aren’t quite sure what to make of me yet…

Today has me leaving for Open Source Summit Japan. If you’ll be in Tokyo this week, let me know– I’m giving my “Silence of the Lambdas” talk on Thursday afternoon.

Community Contributions

I agree with this article; cloud cost is very often the wrong angle from which to approach a “do we migrate to cloud” story.

There are entirely too many serverless frameworks now, but I like a lot of the design decisions that went into Architect.

If your RDS clusters have any of the now 9 year old db.m1 and db.m2 families, they’re finally being deprecated. It’s time to move on to a more capable instance type…

The inaugural REdeploy conference (exploring the intersections of resilient technology, organizations, and people) is coming to San Francisco this August. Last Week in AWS is proud to be a media sponsor.

Friend of the newsletter Datadog is having their Dash conference in New York on July 11-12. If it works for your schedule, I strongly suggest attending; AWS is a platinum sponsor, and longtime readers know how finicky they are about putting their logo on any conference that doesn't have the word "Amazon" in the title somewhere. Use the code "DASHLAST" to get 20% off of registration.

This is a bit off the beaten path; experts are expressing alarm over systemic risk as much of finance moves to AWS. With many trillions of assets under management being driven by systems on a single provider, there’s non-trivial risk emerging. Fascinating story…

AWS Limit Monitor Now Supports Customization - This is a serious antipattern from how service limits are supposed to be handled. Apparently you’re supposed to hit limits you didn’t realize were there and in fact weren’t set properly on AWS’s side, open a support ticket, wait two full days with no response, then get a borderline insulting request insinuating that by raising the limit to what was published that they’re somehow doing you a favor. Can you tell I had a rough week with an ACM certificate limit?

Introducing AWS Landing Zone - …really. “Landing Zone.” That’s the best name you came up with for a system that ensures proper controls are built around large-scale Organizations account? Not “Cloud Factory,” not “Account Ability,” but “Landing Zone?” I can only assume that you pronounce “Zone” as two syllables, emphasis on the second.

Tools

I played with this a bit this week– saw is a fast realtime CloudWatch Logs viewer. I’m a fan.

Since 0.0.0.0/0 is crappy, aws-access updates an AWS security group with your current IP.

…and that’s what happened Last Week in AWS.

I’m Corey Quinn. I help people significantly reduce and understand their AWS bills and speak broadly on the conference circuit. I advise companies doing interesting things in the cloud space, such as ReactiveOps.

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